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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:22101 RCAF
    Construction Number:10676
    Last Civil Registration:N15505
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn 22101 RCAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Campbell AAF / Sabre AAP, Hopkinsville, Kentucky

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1952

    Constructed as a C-119F-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, Maryland, USA.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-2687.
    This serial was likely only assigned for the purpose of transferring the airframe to the RCAF. It is thought this airframe had no service in the USAF.

    8 September 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 22101.

    Circa 1954

    Converted to a C-119G.

    Transferred to 435 Squadron.


    Photographer: Unknown

    Transferred to 436 Squadron.

    Transferred to Crown Assets Disposal Corporation.

    9 May 1967

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    From May 1971 to 1976

    To Aircraft International Associates, Dallas TX with new c/r N15505.

    From 1971 to 1976

    Stored unconvered at Lincoln, NE.

    From 1976 to 1995

    To Hawkins and Powers, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY keeping c/r N15505.

    From 1976 to 1991

    Stored unconvered at Greybull, WY, in a RCAF scheme.

    1976

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Hawkins and Powers, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
    Delivered from Lincoln, NE, to Greybull.
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    September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: N15505 was former RCAF 22101 and was never converted, being stripped for parts at Greybull, Wyoming

    1991

    In the inventory of National Museum of the United States Air Force.

    October 1991

    Being made operational at Greybull ex lengthy storage, for ferry flight to a museum.

    From 1993 to 2015

    Loaned to US Army Museum, Fort Campbell, KY.

    Displayed as received from Hawkins and Powers in a faded RCAF scheme.

    September 1995

    Loaned to Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum, Fort Campbell, Clarksville, TN.
    Obtained for use in the restoration of USN BuNo 131679.
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    10 April 1998

    To unknown owner with c/r N15505.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.

    15 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed behind the museum building

    Circa 2011

    Restored.

    7 August 2013

    Civil registration, N15505, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.

    Loaned to Campbell AAF/Sabre AAP, Hopkinsville, KY.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Canadian Military Aircraft - Serials and Photographs by J. A. Griffin
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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